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This contains 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh, which had been vacated by Congress MLAs once they give up to be part of the BJP earlier this 12 months.
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By-elections to 56 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat in Bihar which were pending due to the COVID-19 pandemic can be held on November 3 and November 7, the Election Commission of India (ECI) introduced on Tuesday.
The Assembly seats going to the polls embody 28 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, of which 25 had been vacated due to the resignation of Congress MLAs and three due to the loss of life of sitting MLAs. The MLAs’ resignation had led to the autumn of the Congress authorities. The bypoll outcomes will resolve the destiny of the BJP authorities that got here to energy.
The ECI, nonetheless, didn’t announce the schedule for bypolls to seven seats in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala which are additionally vacant, because the authorities in these States expressed difficulties in conducting polls, a Commission assertion stated.
Polling for the Valmiki Nagar parliamentary constituency can be held on November 7, together with two Assembly seats in Manipur. Polling for the 54 Assembly seats – one every in Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Telangana, two every in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Nagaland and Odisha, seven in Uttar Pradesh, eight in Gujarat and 28 in Madhya Pradesh – can be held on November 3. Counting of votes for all of the by-elections can be on November 10. The constituencies in Madhya Pradesh embody the seats vacated by Congress MLAs once they give up to be part of the BJP earlier this 12 months.
The ECI stated it had determined the ballot schedule after considering numerous elements, together with native festivals, motion of safety forces, as properly the pandemic.
Pandemic pointers
The ECI’s pointers for elections in the course of the pandemic can be relevant to the bypolls as properly. Masks can be obligatory for all these concerned in poll-related actions, from the ballot staff to candidates to voters.
For the remaining vacant constituencies – Rangapara and Sibsagar in Assam, Kuttanad and Chavara in Kerala, (*7*) and Gudiyattam in Tamil Nadu and Falakata in West Bengal – the ECI stated it had determined not to announce by-elections “at this stage”. It added that it might take a name on different latest vacancies in Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies after receiving inputs from the States involved.
Last week, the ECI introduced elections to the Bihar Assembly in three phases- on October 28, November 3 and November 7 and counting on November 10.
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